About

Welcome! This website/blog discusses the physics, biology, and means to end humanity's reliance on animal-based commodities. My goals are as follows:

• Compel with technological and efficiency reasons for moving away from animal-products
• Inculcate intuition for why animal products are fundamentally inferior in terms of process engineering
• Stoke the imaginations of readers to see a larger possibility space of potential foods
• Advocate for fundamental research in order to mitigate our dependence on animal-products

About the author

I'm Karthik Sekar. I'm a trained scientist and engineer. I finished a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University and a postdoctoral position in Systems Biology at ETH Zurich. I'm currently the Lead Artificial Intelligence & Operational Technology Architect at UPSIDE Foods.

I consider animal technology to be one of the biggest problems in the world especially in proportion to the ongoing countering efforts. I seek to increase the nuance and dimensionality in the conversation about animal-based products; therefore, I write this blog and book.

If of interest, here are links to my publications, code, and LinkedIn. Otherwise, I spend free time cooking, playing board games, meditating, climbing, running, and biking.

Thanks for reading!

Disclaimer: All views presented here are my own and do not represent any person nor entity that I associate with.